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Elections

REDLANDS >> While some candidates are already thinking about 2016, San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos is looking ahead to 2018.“Every day I wake up and I love my job, I do. And I love the people that are working in the DA’s office,” Ramos said in a Redlands coffee shop Friday morning. “And then (California Attorney General) Kamala Harris started talking about running for United States...

Education

REDLANDS >> Last August, the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office announced that it would not press criminal charges against the Redlands Unified School District for failing to report the sexual relationship between

Lawsuits

POMONA >> Cal Poly Pomona has settled a lawsuit brought on behalf of a student handing out animal-rights literature on campus.“I’m glad that Cal Poly was able to reach agreement fairly quickly,” said Nicolas Tomas. “I think had they reached out to their counsel when I reached out to their administrators before, we could have settled...

Wildfires

As shocking as the images of vehicles on fire in the Cajon Pass last weekend were, what awaited some motorists who were forced to abandon their vehicles before flames reached them shocked them even more: Towing fees in the thousands of dollars.After angry motorists lashed out over the weekend, local leaders this week did too, looking to crack down on...

Wildfires

As of Tuesday morning, the North Fire in the Cajon Pass was 100 percent contained, according to the U.S. Forest Service.More than 200 firefighters were fighting the 4,250-acre North Fire in the Cajon Pass and Baldy Mesa area. • Photos: North fire burns...

Droughts

SAN BERNARDINO >> How deep would you have had to dig to reach water in your neighborhood in 1963? Where were the streams the city of San Bernardino paved over decades ago? What do we know about the local water quality when your parents were children?The Water Resources Institute at Cal State San Bernardino knows the answer.Hidden away on the fourth floor of the Pfau Library, the institute brings together tens of thousands of documents...

Movies & TV

Thunder Levin, the screenwriter of “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!” along with the first two installments in the series, said just that to producers when they first approached him about writing the airborne shark disaster movie.“We were talking about what I was going to do next,” Levin said in the lobby of his San Diego hotel during Comic-Con 2015. “And they said...

Censorship

SAN DIEGO >> Free speech advocates blasted a Yucaipa family for their continuing attempts to get comic books and graphic novels that offend them removed from Crafton Hills College course offerings.The complaints brought by Tara Shultz, 20, and her father Greg, both of Yucaipa, were “really bizarre,”...

Literary fiction

On Tuesday, Harper Lee takes the pressure off of George R. R. Martin when her second novel, “Go Set a Watchman” is released, 55 years after the publication of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The latter has been read in many high school English classes for decades. Experts say it’s still relevant today.Can’t see this Storify? Click here.

Movies & TV

SAN DIEGO >> M. Night Shyalaman is big. It’s the pictures that got small. And he says he likes it that way.“So much of what we spend money on in the movies doesn’t go on the screen,” Shyalaman said durig an interview Friday at Comic-Con International. “I can’t say it was for everybody. For me, it was very sweet and wonderful and it really fits me.”His new...